Literatura y técnica en el léxico quirúrgico del siglo XVI
ISSN: 1130-3336
Datum der Publikation: 1994
Nummer: 5
Seiten: 91-110
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Voces
Zusammenfassung
In the surgical lexicón of medical Humanism, Celsus and general literary Latin become a pattern of elegance in opposition to medieval sources and their largely technical language. In the context of a medicine devoted to the commentary of Hippocrates and Galen and to theoretical speculation, and from the analysis of diffenent examples, two aspects become apparent: on the one hand, the distance between the lexical habits of doctors ad surgeons, and on the other the pressure exerted on the vocabulary by praxis together with the need for a univocal terminology lacking connotations unlike the literariness of philological medical Humanism.